Sample sentences for INFATUATED

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under the unreasoning spell of new love or attraction

He is infatuated with her.

"I only say that we're too infatuated with mere brain-power; that, after all, isn't a vulgar fault.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volumes 1 & 2
Make it look like an infatuation, perhaps.
John Le Carre -- The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)

What infatuation is it, what obstinate prepossession, that blinds you to that?
George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss

But your arts and allurements may, in a moment of infatuation, have made him forget what he owes to himself and to all his family.
Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice

"I only say that we're too infatuated with mere brain-power; that, after all, isn't a vulgar fault.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
I felt like a boy talking to his first infatuation.
Bella Forrest -- A Shade of Vampire

I don't think mating and infatuation and friendships and closeness would occur if our faces didn't work that way."
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

Everyone who heard of his infatuation for the school teacher was sure it would turn out badly.
Sherwood Anderson -- Winesburg, Ohio

Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of unbounded wonder, "My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this?
Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein

And how strange an infatuation on Frederick's side!
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey

How good of you to wait in the rain all this time—to gratify my infatuation!
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure

I could hope for nothing from one so infatuated with and devoted to his master.
Jules Verne -- A Journey to the Center of the Earth
In college she had harbored lengthy infatuations, with students with whom she never spoke, with professors and TAs.
Jhumpa Lahiri -- The Namesake

(editor's note: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.)

Is there nothing left, to which I can appeal against this terrible infatuation!'
Charles Dickens -- Oliver Twist

Usually I hate it when artists get too infatuated with light, but this is special.
Christina Garcia -- Dreaming in Cuban
It was time to end her little infatuation with Mike once and for all.
Nicholas Sparks -- The Guardian

No, Viv: your infatuated little boy will have to stick to you in any case.
George Bernard Shaw -- Mrs. Warren's Profession
I've come to learn that there's real value in that—a value greater than any infatuation.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom

She wanted to be taken and she was, and what had begun with a childish infatuation on a beach was accomplished at last.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- Tender is the Night

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